Ed Rendell: “The long-run answer to all of our problems in my judgment is there should be a Federal capital budget.”

Raising taxes: less than $100. Cost of inaction: $818.

But I go to too many hearings on the question of infrastructure and transportation, and nothing significant gets done. Nothing significant gets done.

We need to revitalize America's infrastructure before it is too late.

The cost of inaction --and the gentleman from the trucking industry talked about repairs and accidents to the trucks that come from bad roads and inadequate bridges.